Tag holder



23, 1930. v| E. 'LARQHE l 1,776,734

TAG HOLDER Filed Peb. 25. 1929 Iliff" Ey mamon ATTORNEY per se. provides attaching means for the holder, the Figure 3 is a sectional View taken substanflange 19 engaging one wall of a groove 20 tially on the line 3-3 of Figure 1. which extends longitudinally of and parallell 30 Figure l is a face view of the hold-er with with the outer edge of a shelf or like support- 80 the tag removed. ing member 21. `The position of the groove Figure 5 is a fragmentary plan view show- 2O with respect to the outer edge of the shelf ing the holder in position for use. is such that when the flange 19 is engaged Figure 6 is a view of a blank vfrom which with the outer wall of the groove as shown in 35 the holder may be formed. Figure 3 of the drawing, the section 17 of 85 Figure 7 is a fragmentary perspective the arm will be slightly flexed so that the rear view showing ,one corner of the holder. face of the base 10 will have a yielding fric- Figure 8 is a section taken substantially tional engagement with the edge of the on the line 8-8 of Figure 7. shelf 21.

Patented Slept. 23, 1939 i i y l UNITED STATESg PATENT `jol-'rlesl f .Application filed February 25, 1929.` Serial No. 342,465.' v

This invention relates to tag holders espewardly extending flanges 11 which v are,y cially designed for application to shelves and spaced from the baseV to `provide guide other like supporting members employed in grooves 12 for'removably receiving a tag 13. the display of merchandise, the invention The lower ends of the flanges 1 1are slitted as A 6 being especially useful in self service stores, shown at 14%` and bent inward in'"ycontactv'vith:V 55.-- and is an improvement upon the invention the outer face of the base as shown at 154 s o as V disclosed in my copending application led to provide stops at the. lower ends ofthe August 4, 1928, Serial No. 297,509. grooves 12 toflimit downward movement of The present invention contemplates the the tag 13.. If desired, the lowerends of the 10 provision of a tag holder which may be flanges may be crimped or lbent as shown at no quickly secured to or removed from a shelf 15a in Figure 9 of .the drawing sas to proor like support, and when attached in posivide stops for the tag. tion for use, has a sliding engagement with Extending from the upper edge of the the support, so that the positionvof the holder tag is a retaining arm 16. This arm is 15 may be changed without removing the same formed by bending the material down- 65 from the support. v wardly against the rear face of the base to With the above andother objects in view, provide a section 17 which normally engages the invention further includes the following the base, while extending from the lower novel features and details of construction, to edge of the section 17 is a section 18 which 20 be hereinafter more fully described, illusis disposed substantially at rightangles to 'mi trated in the accompanying drawing and the section 17 and to the base 10. The outer pointed out in the appended claim. free edge of the section 18 is formed to pro- In the drawing :M vide a flange 19 which is preferably inclined Figure l is a perspectiveview illustrating downwardly and inwardly as shown in Figthe use` of the invention. ures 2 and 3 of the drawing. y 75 Figure 2 is an edge view of the holder The arm 16 is of a resilient character and 40 Figure 9 is a fragmentary perspective The holder may be positioned upon the 90` view of one corner of the holder showing a shelf by placing the flange 19 within the slightly dierent form of the invention. groove 20 with the base of the holder tilted Referring to the drawing in detail whereupward. The holder is then swung downin like characters of reference denote corward so that the base will engage the outer responding parts, the improved holder is edge of the shelf. The holder may be re- 95 preferably made from a single blank of mamoved by swinging the base upward. Asl the terial as illustrated in Figure 6 of the drawresilient connection of the arm 16 provides ing. This blank is shaped to provide a base a yielding frictional engagement kbetween 10 and its opposite side edges are folded in- `the holder and the edge of the shelf, the

ward to provide oppositely disposed inholder may be moved longitudinally of the 109 shelf so as to position it Without requiring its removal from the shelf.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its forni, proportions and minor details of construction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall Within the scope of theappended claim. Y 1

Having described 4the invention What is claimed is:

In combination with 'a vshelf having aA groove in its top and spaced from and parallel With the forward edger thereof, a tag holder formed from vasingle blank of material and comprising a base adapted to'bear against said edge and extend above the top of the shelf, opposed flanges Vformed on thel side edges of the base to removably attach a tag thereto, and a substantially Z-shaped spring arrn having one end connected With the upper edge of the lbase and a vportion bearing against the rear side of the base, the opposite` end of saidv arm projecting `at a right anglel from an appropriate point in the length of the base, and terminating to provide a ange received by said groove.

` LUCIEN E. LARCHE. 

